In gimp I'm missing the File/Create option to pull an image from a scanner. Google results mention the xsane-gimp package, but dnf in F42 knows nothing about it.
I did find /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc/sane-xsane-gimp-doc.html that tells me to manually create a symbolic link. Huh? That's not progress. Is that really how to feed xsane to gimp, these days?
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
In gimp I'm missing the File/Create option to pull an image from a scanner. Google results mention the xsane-gimp package, but dnf in F42 knows nothing about it.
I did find /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc/sane-xsane-gimp-doc.html that tells me to manually create a symbolic link. Huh? That's not progress. Is that really how to feed xsane to gimp, these days?
It seems like xsane-gimp should update the symlink for you during installation. Did that not happen?
Also see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Alternatives/.
Jeff
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
In gimp I'm missing the File/Create option to pull an image from a scanner. Google results mention the xsane-gimp package, but dnf in F42 knows nothing about it.
I did find /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc/sane-xsane-gimp-doc.html that tells me to manually create a symbolic link. Huh? That's not progress. Is that really how to feed xsane to gimp, these days?
It seems like xsane-gimp should update the symlink for you during installation. Did that not happen?
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
I see https://yingtongli.me/git/gimp-xsanecli mentioned in a few places as a Gimp 3 plugin for XSane. I haven't looked at that code, but perhaps someone interested can review it and work on getting it integrated with the Fedora gimp and xsane packages.
On Sat, 24 May 2025 at 19:12, Todd Zullinger tmz@pobox.com wrote:
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com
wrote:
In gimp I'm missing the File/Create option to pull an image from a
scanner.
Google results mention the xsane-gimp package, but dnf in F42 knows
nothing
about it.
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
Yeah, I had a bit more of a poke round and:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323739 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311817
Indicates the package will be unavailable until this upstream issue is handled: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/xsane/-/issues/66 and that CLI wrapped you mentioned is listed as a mitigation too.
Todd Zullinger writes:
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
Well I do, and gimp no longer knows anything about xsane. Well, that answers that.
Gosh, I get reamed out if I accidentally add some codez that break older compilers that still come with older EL/LTS versions. Enough said.
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
Todd Zullinger writes:
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
Well I do, and gimp no longer knows anything about xsane. Well, that answers that.
I use Skanlite on both Fedora nd Ubuntu. You might give it a try.
(I also run the KDE spin, and I am not sure if Skanlite needs KDE).
Jeff
Jeffrey Walton writes:
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
Todd Zullinger writes:
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
Well I do, and gimp no longer knows anything about xsane. Well, that
answers
that.
I use Skanlite on both Fedora nd Ubuntu. You might give it a try.
(I also run the KDE spin, and I am not sure if Skanlite needs KDE).
Well, the end goal is just to be able to drop a scan directly into gimp. This used to work just fine. Simple. Straightforward. Just pick an option in Gimp's menu, and you get a scan showing right up. Yes, I am now just running xsane myself, scanning, saving, and opening in gimp.
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